Common Folk Using Common Sense

Lots of smart people are already covering this (on-the-rocks, Dr. Rusty Shackleford) but I’ll put in my two cents worth. Says Rusty: Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle. A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah [...]

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From the Washington Post: The Oscars are all about product placement, those delectable swag bags filled to bursting with Montblanc pens, with Heather Hyde jewelry, with Icelandic Glacial bottled water. Get a starlet to bust out the giveaway designer doggie duds on the next morning’s duty walk with Bruiser, and baby, you’ve made it. On [...]

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From Breitbart: Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist’s assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago. Three of Denmark’s largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It [...]

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From the BBC: The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”. Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4′s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system. Dr Williams [...]

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Hat tip to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, from the Christian Today: Three suspected al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple’s children to watch, Iraqi police said on Friday. The militants considered that school guard Youssef al-Hayali was an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers, [...]

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From This Is London: Women are being given controversial “virginity repair” operations on the NHS, it emerged last night. Taxpayers funded 24 hymen replacement operations between 2005 and 2006, official figures revealed. And increasing numbers of women are paying up to £4,000 in private clinics for the procedure apparently under pressure from future spouses or [...]

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Today is December 7th, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, naval aviation forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other military targets. The goal of this attack was to sufficiently cripple the US Fleet [...]

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a [...]

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From the website: During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses. The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies [...]

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FROM THE LEFT: Accepting her Emmy on Sunday night for lead actress in a drama series (“Brothers and Sisters”), Field stumbled halfway through, lost her train of thought, screeched at the audience to stop applauding so she could finish talking, and then was bleeped by Fox censors as she stammered through an anti-war rant. “And, [...]

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From MSNBC: A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims. “Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we [...]

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The news from the BBC is that all eight suspects are medical professionals, seven of them doctors, and all are linked to Britain’s NHS. But now we’re learning from CBS News that the people behind the attempts were directly recruited by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the present leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. First, from the [...]

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From The Daily Express: Demands for a ban on “un-Islamic” activities in schools will be set out by the Muslim Council of Britain today. Targets include playground games, swimming lessons, school plays, parents’ evenings and even vaccinations. And the calls for all children to be taught in Taliban-style conditions will be launched with the help [...]

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From Reuters: Iran‘s president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a “countdown button” to bring an end to Israel. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map“, has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state [...]

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The world-wide media ran more than 6,000 stories and countless photos of Abu Ghraib and the abuse of prisoners there by several U.S. soldiers. And there have been countless articles published about the conditions of the “poor freedom fighters” in Guantanamo. But in an April 24 raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. [...]

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